Death & Dying
To the Lady Crew, upon the death of her Child.
From Hesperides (1648)
Death & Dying
WHy, Madam, will ye longer weep,
When as your Baby's lull'd asleep?
And (pretty Child) feeles now no more
Those paines it lately felt before.
All now is silent; groanes are fled:
Your Child lyes still, yet is not dead:
But rather like a flower hid here
To spring againe another yeare.
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Herrick, Robert. “To the Lady Crew, upon the death of her Child.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/515/.
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Herrick, Robert. “To the Lady Crew, upon the death of her Child.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/515/.
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